Virtue

About Virtue:

There is a lot of controversy about Charcoal. Basically, a
lot of people did not want this font to appear in the Mac OS 8.
A "reverse-engineered" font developed by Greg Landweber
for his Aaron extension and Kaleidoscope control panel gave people
a first look at Charcoal. Greg built his font from looking at
various screen shots and did a good job at making a very complete
font. However, the spacing information and special characters
characters seemed a little off to me. It seems that Apple couldn't
decide whether Charcoal should have two pixels between the letters
or just one. This lead to a cramped appearance on screen.

So here's what I did: basically, I took his work and tried
to space it how I would if I was making Apple's next font. I studied
the "Chicago" system font and and used it as a template
for my font. After about 2 hours of tinkering, I had a bitmap
font that looked really good as a replacement font for Kaleidoscope.
About a week later, after tinkering some more, I made even more
improvements.

Starting with version 3.0, Virtue is a TrueType-only font.
There are no bitmaps, instead advanced TrueType instructing creates
an excellent on-screen appearance. The techniques I used to accomplish
this will soon be applied to my other font creations.

Related Links

If you like Espy Sans and want a font that looks like it that
you can use on your screen and printer, you might want
to check out my Nu Sans. A
companion serif font is Nu Serif--which
is based on Apple's Espy Serif bitmap font. Also, if you are into
the Newton OS, check out my Nu
Casual font--which is a outline version of the Newton Casual
bitmap font.